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WOOD PELLET STOVES  

With the rise of oil prices, many homeowners are using wood pellet stoves to heat their homes. These stoves have a number of advantages over heating appliances that use other types of fuel. This article will discuss

Alternative heating is catching on in Ohio. As the cost of natural gas and oil continues to rise, many Ohioans are turning to alternative heating such as wood burning and pellet stoves.

A wood pellet stove is usually a complicated system. There are various components that need to be cleaned regularly to keep the stove operating efficiently. This article will give you...

As with all other purchases, pellet stoves too come with fine print. Manufacturers and sales representatives are less inclined to touch on these issues and trial and error becomes the learning tool by default for the homeowner.

Everyone's seen the classic pot-bellied wood-burning stove, sitting in the middle of the frontier home and keeping the family warm. But with energy bills soaring this old energy source has gained new life with innovative designs.

These symptoms are easy to overlook when researching if a pellet stove is the right choice for you, but can mean the difference between being happily satisfied or cursing your giant mistake.

Be inspired to heat "green" this winter.

An overview of corn burning stoves. What they are, how they work, their costs, and other concerns a new owner may have.

New corn burning stoves operate like wood pellet stoves...only better and cheaper!

Spring is only a couple of weeks of rain and sunshine away. It's time to head to your favorite local home and garden store. These locally-owned home and garden stores offer a variety of gardening and landscaping supplies, from seeds to tractors.

Free standing stoves of all kinds offer an alternative to burning carbon fuels to heat a home. Wood burning stoves have been the most popular. Newer stoves such as pellet and corn burners are steadily gaining favor because of their cost advantages.

Mike Kohn and his staff at Home Comfort can help you find a quality wood stoveor gas/electric fireplace.

New gas fireplace inserts are like mini furnaces that furnish heat and make a bold decorative statement....

We purchased an infrared heater to supplement our forced air furnace this winter because our heating oil bills were skyrocketing.

Reducing reliance on propane and gas heating does more than reduce demand for fossil fuels. It takes responsibility for one more area of your life.

Typically people heat their home by oil or natural gas. Both can be a financial headache. There are alternative heating source out there but you should take your time and investigate before deciding.

Wintertime is notoriously known for drying things out in our homes. Dust can travel about more freely when the air is dry, but adding moisture to...

The Chimney Doctor is the only locally nationally certified chimney sweep, and now has opened a fireplace store, "Shore Fire".

A full blown winter ice storm has hit the southwestern corner of New Hampshire. Residents of the small rural communities are kept at home while falling trees knock out the power and slippery roads make traveling dangerous.

How will you deal with unaffordable gas and therefore unaffordable everything else? Will you panic, grow and raise all your supplies, and stay home for the rest of your life? Or be a bit more reasonable and maybe a bit more "green"? See below for some ideas.

In this third installment of the "how to finish your basement" series we will discuss what types of rooms you want in your basement and some other structural decisions.